Celina Lazaro
April 3, 2015
English 1A
High school Softball
Being a high school athlete, it is a bittersweet moment when it comes to your
senior game. After playing high school softball for all four years and being varsity
captain out of two of those years; I was overwhelmed with different emotions. A
feeling of happiness from all the great memories and hard work left on the field.
Along with a feeling of sadness because all those great memories were ending along
with playing with my teammates, my senior game made me realize all that was soon
coming to an end.
When you spend three hours with a group of girls five days a week, you learn
a lot about each other. Of course, there will be hard times and frustration you should
expect that out of a group of thirteen teenage girls. They endure the same pain as
you, when you dreadfully hear the coach yell “Get on the line.” Teammates are they
with you after a hard loss, to pick you up, and remind you “We got the next game.”
They share the same excitement and feeling of accomplishment when your team
wins. Throughout any season whether it’s a good or bad season everything you went
through you had your teammates along the way.
To accomplish greatness in anything it requires hard work. Conditioning in
the fall for pre-season, coach kicking our butts with killer workouts and team
bonding. All leads up to season during the spring. Spending fifteen hours a week on
a softball field trying to improve my skills. Tasting dirt from diving trying to get balls
and doing a dead sprint trying to steal bases. Grunting from swinging so hard to
make that contact with the ball go a little further. All of that is what helps me become
a better athlete by leaving everything I have on the field to help my team win.
Ending my high school softball career was tough. I can honestly say I left
everything I had on the field that game. I was playing second base and was able to do
a double play by the short stop tossing me ball, and me tagging the base and